The Court of Putin
Analysis
Putin Likes Reading Reports
Putin likes reading reports. They replace collective discussion as a way of decision making. If he doesn't have any questions, then there's no discussion. He makes sure that those he consults can't compare notes. His security count is like a boat divided up by bulkheads. In different parts of the boat, kept strictly apart, are three sets of courtiers. Catherine belton, the silivike security service members that ar so called men of force. Then there are the technocrats, the people from the economic wing of government whoave maintained a stand for closer ration with the west. And then you have the so called oligarchs, who are nowadays forced to act as
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